Turning Jewels Into Water - Morning Birds and Distant Drums

Format: 12" Vinyl
Catalogue No.: TRULE034
Release Date: 19 Sep 2026
Genre: Experimental / World / Techno

a1. A Fire Of Flowers
a2. In Dombivili
a3. An Invocation
b1. Tasha Bhasha (Language Of The Drum)
b2. Tapori Beat Special
b3. Closing (Sunken Cages Edit)
 
Early into their collaboration as Turning Jewels Into Water, Val Jeanty and Ravish Momin adopted the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians’ longtime credo “Ancient to the Future” as a lodestar. Perhaps it seems like a riddle, but the AACM motto offers instruction to take what is sacred from the past and pull it into the present, using new means to make music that resonates with your lineage. Jeanty emigrated to the United States from Haiti in the mid-’80s, while Momin was born in India but now calls New York home. Since improvising together at Pioneer Works in 2017, Momin and Jeanty have integrated a world of beliefs and sounds—voodoo and hoodoo, mbalax and drum circles—into kinetic music made with cutting-edge electronics, from Sensory Percussions drums to Smart Fabric MIDI controllers. They pull the past into the present, then use it to imagine a better future.